Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- Vol. 530 (1) , 109-121
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716293530001008
Abstract
Is multiculturalism a battleground or a meeting ground? To answer this question, Ronald Takaki identifies two emerging perspectives—particularism and pluralism. The culture war over the content of the curriculum is presented as a debate, a clash of ideas: Allan Bloom, Diane Ravitch, and Arthur Schlesinger versus Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates, and Takaki himself. The university should be a stimulating contested terrain where scholars of different viewpoints engage each other over the meaning and content of culture, but whether it can become such a place of intellectual encounters may be in doubt.Keywords
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